• Use concrete block filled with sand for optimal sound containment
• Build high STC walls using staggered-stud construction with barrier material woven between the studs
• Install high STC doors and use high quality door seals
• Specify double-pane glass windows
• Integrate floating floors in key areas

Reverberation time in any room used for broadcast/audio applications should be between 0.7 and 1.0 seconds.

Incorporate good "Live End / Dead End" acoustics into your control rooms. This acoustic situation is created in control room settings by using sound-absorbing wall panels to treat the wall behind the speakers and a portion of the two adjacent walls, thereby "deadening" the area but leaving the listener area untreated or "live

TV and video studies can be very reverberant, especially with all the hard surface materials such as tile floors, large consoles, etc. Be sure to incorporate appropriate acoustical materials to help reduce the reverberation. Acoustic baffles hung from the ceiling rafters are a practical, easy solution to solving excess echo in a TV studio, without interfering with cameras and studio design.

Remember the ABC’s of acoustics

A = absorb, for absorbing unwanted sounds within a room. Ideal absorbers include SONEX Panels, FABRITEC Wall Panels, CONTOUR Ceiling Tiles, HARMONI Ceiling Tiles, and PROSPEC

B = block, for blocking unwanted sounds before they invade a neighboring space. One example of an ideal application for blocking sound includes hanging PROSPEC barrier inside the plenum between a drop ceiling and the true ceiling to prevent sounds from reverberating throughout the entire plenum space. Another example for blocking sounds is using CONTOUR Ceiling Tiles in offices and conference rooms. With a CAC of 34, CONTOUR Ceiling Tiles will block noises from traveling between one office space to another.

C = containment,for containing sounds within a space. Ideal candidates for containment include PROSPEC barrier used in a staggered-stud wall construction and PROSPEC Composite Panels used in a mechanical room or enclosure.